Prediction of wind loads on a large flat roof using fuzzy neural networks

Engineering Structures

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 153-161

  Fu, J Y ^a,b   Li, Q S ^a   Xie, Z N ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Flat roof; Fuzzy neural network; Wind loads; Wind tunnel test

Indexed keywords

FUZZY SETS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL LOADS; WIND TUNNELS;

FLAT ROOF; FUZZY NEURAL NETWORK; WIND LOADS; WIND TUNNEL TEST;

ROOFS;

FUZZY MATHEMATICS; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 27744558965     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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